First, a disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, unless watching Legally Blonde about
a dozen times counts.
Not exact matches
Each
time an influential person retweeted something I wrote, my follower
count shot up by about a
dozen people.
It feels more than a little braggy to deem these the # 1 recipe for gluten free chocolate chip cookies, but after baking and tweaking the recipes over twelve
times (I lost
count somewhere after 8
dozen cookies), I feel I've earned to right to tell you: THESE ARE THE BEST.
For instance: Earlier this month, the Seattle
Times investigated the reported numbers of women who row for the University of Washington and «found
dozens of women who appear to have not been on the women's rowing team, but whom the UW
counted as crew participants in reports to federal officials over the past several years.»
Lamor Whitehead, founder of Leaders of Tomorrow Brooklyn, has appeared at more than a
dozen high - profile events with Adams since his five - year stint at Sing Sing, where he served
time on multiple
counts of identity fraud and grand larceny before his release in July 2013.
Among the 1,900 - and -
counting confirmed alien planets found so far, we've seen everything from bizarro, jumbo versions of Jupiter in scorchingly tight orbits to exoplanets
dozens of
times farther out than Neptune, and even worlds circling two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars.
It feels more than a little braggy to deem these the # 1 recipe for gluten free chocolate chip cookies, but after baking and tweaking the recipes over twelve
times (I lost
count somewhere after 8
dozen cookies), I feel I've earned to right to tell you: THESE ARE THE BEST.
Eight different
times in shop for over a
dozen problems (not
counting 3 recall issues).
To wrap up my year, I was on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and in The
Times, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and a host of others at the top of the year, have sold nearly a million books now (not
counting my co-authored tomes), released my co-authored novel with Clive Cussler in Sept. and hit # 2 on the NYT Bestseller List with it, sold foreign rights to Germany, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, have a half
dozen name production companies nosing around JET and my Assassin series, have a wonderful agent who has forgotten more than I'll ever know about the biz, and have generally had a nice run of it.
I can't
count the number of
times I've recommended Speak, Wintergirls, Sarah Dessen's Dreamland, all of the poetry - prose books by Ellen Hopkins, the realistic fiction of Gary Schmidt, or
dozens of other books about drugs, abusive relationships, and other «edgy» topics.
The lack of wind in September makes it an ideal
time for jumping in a fishing boat and taking a calm trip out to Santa Luzia, the only uninhabited island of the 10 that make up Cape Verde (not
counting the
dozens of islets).
Though I died
dozens of
times when playing Unity I can
count on one hand how many
times it felt like my fault and not the games.
In about 2 months of play I've logged over 85 hours, paid off half a
dozen public works projects (the Cube sculpture being my favorite so far) and paid off my home loan more
times than I can
count.
It still
counts as finished game, even if I've «finished» it a
dozen times already, right?
I'm less than a
dozen hours into the game, and I've died more
times than I can
count.